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Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Metalogix Archive Manager

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon S3 Glacier

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are purpose-built for data archiving, providing a low cost archive storage in the cloud. According to AWS, S3 Glacier storage classes provide virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data durability, and they provide fast access to archive data and low cost.

    $0

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    Metalogix Archive Manager

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AQuest Software now offers an enterprise information archiving (EIA) solution via their acquisition of the Metalogix solution suite in 2018. Metalogix Archive Manager, available in two editions (Archive Manager for Exchange, and Archive Manager for Files), support email archiving, and allows users to automatically archive, manage and secure an organization’s files, controlling how long messages are archived in accordance with industry, government and internal regulations.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon S3 GlacierMetalogix Archive Manager
    Editions & Modules
    Bulk Retrieval Pricing
    $0.0025
    Per GB Per Month
    Storage Pricing
    $0.004
    Per GB Per Month
    Retrieval Pricing
    $0.01
    Per GB Per Month
    Expedited Retrieval Pricing
    $0.03
    Per GB Per Month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3 GlacierMetalogix Archive Manager
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Amazon S3 GlacierMetalogix Archive Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
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    Usability
    6.0
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    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon S3 GlacierMetalogix Archive Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    If your organization has a lot of archival data that it needs to be backed up for safekeeping, where it won't be touched except in a dire emergency, Amazon Glacier is perfect. In our case, we had a client that generates many TB of video and photo data at annual events and wanted to retain ALL of it, pre- and post- edit for potential use in a future museum. Using the Snowball device, we were able to move hundreds of TB of existing media data that was previously housed on multiple Thunderbolt drives, external RAIDs, etc, in an organized manner, to Amazon Glacier. Then, we were able to setup CloudBerry Backup on their production computers to continually backup any new media that they generated during their annual events.
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    Quest Software
    Archive Manager is very cost effective and much less expensive than Veritas Enterprise Vault. I use Archive Manager as protection from ransomware. This has saved me more than once where I can very rapidly restore encrypted files. It is also hardware agnostic and very flexible.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Cheap storage of backup data.
    • Can be used as a part of the entire suite of tools from Amazon, without requiring you to leave the familiar stack.
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    Quest Software
    • Email archiving and retrieval - leaves a stub in the users mailbox so they can still see and retrieve emails directly from their mail client.
    • Very little admin or maintenance required from IT.
    • PST Scavenging - MAM has a tool that will hun the network for rogue PSTs, and import same into MAM so the PST can be deleted.
    • The Metalogix team are one of the best support teams we've ever dealt with.
    • Prompt, knowledgeable and friendly.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Sometime due to slow drives there are operation failure noticed by us in testing
    • Cost of restoring data is high and if you have regular restoring them it is not good option and slow as well.
    • While we were setting up the system we took some support from AWS and in many cases their answers were not up to the mark.
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    Quest Software
    • Archive Manager has a very steep learning curve. In some areas it seems unnecessarily complicated. You can either spend a great deal of time reading the never ending documentation or pay for their installation services.
    • Metalogix was recently acquired by Quest. Since this transition, their support had greatly gone downhill. The last couple of times I have opened a ticket I have been asked for a service tag. Metalogix products do not have service tags and the front level techs seem to be unaware of this.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire.
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    Quest Software
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
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    Quest Software
    Customer support is great and I will typically work with the same representative every time. He is very knowledgeable in the product and has been with Metalogix for a long time. I am concerned how the acquisition from Quest will affect this. It seems like their pool of knowledgeable support representatives is small.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Since the rest of our infrastructure is in Amazon AWS, coding for sending data to Glacier just makes sense. The others are great as well, for their specific needs and uses, but having *another* third-party software to manage, be billed for, and learn/utilize can be costly in money and time.
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    Quest Software
    Large enterprise scalablity.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • We seldom need to access our data in Glacier; this means that it is a fraction of the cost of S3, including the infrequent-access storage class.
    • Transitioning data to Glacier is managed by AWS. We don't need our engineers to build or maintain log pipelines.
    • Configuring lifecycle policies for S3 and Glacier is simple; it takes our engineers very little time, and there is little risk of errant configuration.
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    Quest Software
    • MAM has enable us to tier our email storage intelligently between high speed SAN, Low Cost NAs and Amazon cloud.
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